“A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, ‘You are mad; you are not like us.'” ― St. Anthony the Great

Sunday, May 14, 2017

seething Trump

Drudge headlines Trump is seething about leaks and suggests by stating with a question mark that he intends to clean house. The old declarative as interrogative routine again. Come to think of it, I need to seethe too and clean house. This place is a mess over here.

I don't know what seethe means. I think it means boil, pressure and steam, very angry. Like this.

How do you know someone is angry unless they show it? How did Trump show it? Did he yell? One of my all time favorite YouTube videos is Bill Still describing a massive Hillary meltdown following the surprise question from Matt Lauer. Lauer went off script. Bill Still starts out deadpan, "Still reporting on the Clintons." Like that kind of seething that Bill describes? Because that was fun.

People blowing their tops do not scare me or even upset me. My dad trained us well. I can tell you that nothing in the world at large matches anything already endured. Everyone else is cute by comparison. And you know what? The good thing about such people is you know what is on their mind regarding you. No guessing. That is a tremendous benefit.

Did he swear? Because that's what I would do.

How did he seethe? By what observable behavior? What does seethe even mean?

Got it. But nothing here about anger, while it's still understood Drudge is talking about anger. I'd have more confidence if the dictionary mentioned something about anger. Don't you think? The dictionary showed where the word came from so it's descriptive of usage not prescriptive.

See? Sometimes we're already smarter than dictionaries.

I think I'll have cubed and seethed Yukon potatoes with butter for dinner.

10 comments:

You can't have seethed potatoes because the verb is intransitive. You can't seethe something unless you're a lisping per diem carp. I mean, you can seethe, or you can seethe with something, but you can't directly seethe something.

When we left for San Diego and January we left the potatoes in the cabinet. When she got home last week, my bride opened the cupboard and it looked like a horror movie w/ 3 foot curly eyes wrapped around each other.